If you’re not familiar with it, OnLive is a quite innovative service. Instead of forcing you to download games you want to play all you need to do is download their game client and you’re ready to stream games from their servers to your computer. While their game library isn’t too massive just yet, it does include hot titles such as NBA 2K11.
Seeing how the service is quite new, there are still some features that have yet to be added. Luckily, OnLive’s VP of Engineering, Joe Bentley, recently spoke during GDC to give us a bit of insight into the future of the service. First of all, OnLive plans to add achievements to their service which consoles gamers will be quite familiar with as it gives players incentives to continue playing, many times even after a game’s main mode is beaten. Additionally, the company also hopes to bring integrated voice chat, game invites and the ability to upload clips from the service straight to OnLive.
These is quite a hefty order but once they are implemented, OnLive will be much more up to par with traditional consoles like the Xbox 360 OR PS3.
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